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The Consul General of Italy in Calcutta, in collaboration with Nandan West Bengal Film Centre and Roopkala Kendra, is screening a package of Italian films (with English sub-titles). To be screened today are Callas Forever (dir: Franco Zeffirelli, 4 pm) and C’era una Volta il West (Once Upon A Time in the West; dir: Sergio Leone, 6.30 pm). The former film (a still from it appears above) is a fictionalised account of the last days of opera singer Maria Callas. The latter is the epic story of a mysterious stranger with a harmonica who joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.
Event: Screening of Italian films When: Till April 3; 4 pm & 6.30 pm Where: Nandan II
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art
April 2 at Gallery Sanskriti, 5C Alipore Park Road; 6.30 pm: Inauguration of a collection of Somenath Maity’s works, titled Structures. The display will be on till April 16, 11 am - 8 pm except Sundays.
Till April 2 at Akar Prakar, P 238 Hindustan Park, #2464 2617/3843; 2 pm - 7 pm: A retrospective of works by Amitabha Banerjee.
Till April 4 at Chitrakoot Art Gallery, 55 Gariahat Road, #2475 2275; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings (mixed media and oil on canvas) by Murshida Arzu Alpana.
Till April 5 at Shrimati Art Gallery, 4 Elgin Road; 4 pm - 8 pm: Baitanik hosts an exhibition of portraits and sculptures of Tagore by various eminent artists.
Till April 5 at Chemould Art Gallery, 12F Park Street, #2229 8641; 2 pm - 7 pm: The second solo exhibition of paintings by Munmun Das.
Till April 5 at Idiyas Gallery, 15 Dover Road, #65508418; 10.30 am - 6.30 pm: Manifestations of Reality, featuring works by Atin Basak, Sanatan Dinda, Subrata Pal, Kartick Pyne, Prakash Karmakar, Suhas Roy, Subrata Gangopadhyay, Sibsaday, Subhamita Dinda, Gourango Beshai, Bratin Khan and Ramananda Bandyopadhyay.
Till April 5 at Gallery K2, Supra Court, 35 Lansdowne Terrace, #2465 1444; 11 am - 7 pm: A Million Lines — an exhibition of drawings and installation art by Partha Pratim Deb.
Till April 5 at Tejas Art Gallery, 11 Mayfair Road; #9830049825; 1 pm - 7.30 pm: Gaia, an exhibition of painting and sculpture celebrating nature.
Till April 6 at By the Way, Taj Bengal; 10 am - 11 pm: A solo show of recent works by Dilip Chaudhury.
Till April 6 at Sunil Art Gallery, 171/2D Rashbehari Avenue (opp. Aleya cinema); 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings by Dwarakanath Chatterjee and Kalyan Chakraborty.
Till April 7 at Academy of Fine Arts, North Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of sculptures by Manjushri Chakraborty and Some Kumar Deb.
Till April 8 (except Sundays & public holidays) at CIMA Gallery, #2485 8717/8509; Mondays: 3 pm - 7 pm, Tuesdays - Saturdays: 2 pm - 7 pm: On the Verge — recent works by Sumitro Basak.
Till April 10 at Academy of Fine Arts, South Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Meander Contemplation — works on sculpture by Provat Majhi.
Till April 20 (except Mondays) at Birla Academy of Art & Culture; 3 pm - 8 pm: Revelation 2008 — an exhibition of works by Subrata Saha, Dipankar Sinha, Partha Pratim Saha, Madhubanti Banerjee, Pratima Seal, Swati Mukherjee, Ranadip Das, Dip Banerjee and Piyush Kanti Gayen.
Till April 22 (except Sundays) at Ganges Art Gallery, 33A Jatin Das Road, #24653212; 11 am - 7 pm: A group show, titled The Butterfly Effect. Participating artists: Kalicharan Gupta, Kazi Ghiyasuddin, Kishor Shinde, Partha Shaw, Pradip Rakshit, Shambhavi Gattani, Sunil Das and Yusuf.
Till April 30 (except Mondays) at Shree Art Gallery, #3022 2040; 3 pm - 7 pm: Bengal Contemporary Art. Featuring paintings by Amal Das, Ashimava Dutta, Atin Mitra, Bhaskar Bhattacharjee, Bhaskar Lahiri, Chandidas Bhattacharya, Dhiren Sasmal, Malay Chandan Saha, Prabir Bagchi, Pramathes Chandra, Pran Gopal Ghosh, Priyanka Lahiri, Ramprasad Dey, Ranadip Das, Ratan Acharya, Rina Mustafi, Shilpi Acharya and Subrata Das.
DRAMA
April 2 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Sundaram presents Galpo Hekim Saheb. Drama, direction & acting: Manoj Mitra.
April 3 at Sisir Mancha; 6.30 pm: Bisarga presents Bodh. Drama: Nupu Banerjee. Dir: Nripen Banerjee.
April 4 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Howrah Dakshinayan will stage Hawa Badal, directed by Kunal Mukhopadhyay.
April 5 at Gyan Manch; 6 pm: Harvey, the Pulitzer Prize winning play, prduced by Stagecraft and directed by Rohit Pombra.
PERFORMING ARTS
April 2 at Sisir Mancha; 6.30 pm: Aritra felicitates poet Dipak Lahiri along with a reading session of his poems. Also, a solo recital of Tagore songs by Sumita Das. The evening’s programme will be introduced by Pranati Tagore.
April 4 at Padatik Little Theatre, 6/7 AJC Bose Road; 7 pm: Padatik presents a music session by the Violin Brothers, Debshankar Roy and Jyotishankar Roy. Along with them, theatre actor/director Kunal Padhy will be on the V-drums.
April 5 at Calcutta School of Music, 6B Sunny Park; 7 pm: Bettina Breese from Germany will present Bharata Natyam and Kuchipudi dance recitals.
TALK
April 2 at Ramakrishna Mission Saradapitha, Belur Math; 6 pm: Swami Shastrajnananda will speak on Vivek Chudamoni.
April 2 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Shivananda Hall; 6 pm: Ralph Abraham will speak on Consciousness and the New Mathematics.
FILM SHOW
Till April 3 at Nandan II; 4 pm & 6.30 pm: The Consul General of Italy in Calcutta, in collaboration with Nandan West Bengal Film Centre and with Roopkala Kendro, hosts the screening of a package of Italian films (with English sub-titles). April 2: Callas For Ever by Franco Zeffirelli at 4 pm; C’era Una Volta Il West (Once Upon the Time in the West) by Sergio Leone at 6.30 pm. April 3: Io Non Ho Paura (I am Not Scared) by Gabriele Salvatores at 4 pm; L’Imperatore Di Capri (The Emperor of Capri) by Luigi Comencini at 6.30 pm.
EXHIBITION
April 2 - 7 at Artisana, 13 Chowringhee Terrace, 1st floor, off Gokhale Road, #2223 9422; 10 am - 7.30 pm: Crafts Council of West Bengal presents its summer collection of textiles at Baishakhi, an exhibition where traditional weavers, dyers and block-printers will showcase their designs reinvented from the past. Inauguration today at 11 am.
Till April 5 at Toontooni, 10 Satyen Dutta Road, #2465 1697; 11 am - 8 pm: Exhibition of cotton, tussar, silk and kantha sarees, blouses, kurtas and churidar sets.
Till April 5 at 5/1 Anil Moitra Road; 9.30 am - 6.30 pm: Weavers Studio and Rehwa present Pushpanjali, woven and printed maheshwaris inspired by the season of flowers. Designed by Mira Sagar
Till April 5 at Nupur’s Boutique, 40/8 Gariahat Road (South), #98300 39836: Summer collections of Madhubani hand-painted, blockprints and hand-embroidered sarees on cotton, malmal, silk and tussar.
Till April 5 at P-58 Dr Sarat Banerjee Road, #2466 2238; 4 pm - 9 pm: Sreemayee presents its summer collection of designer sarees.
Till April 10 at Green House, Tollygunge Metro Station: Designer sarees, dresses and ladies wear.
Till April 15 at 108 Raja Basanta Roy Road, #2466 4315; 10.30 am - 7.30 pm: Summer show at Paramita Viswanathan’s Design. Items: silk, tassar print, chiffan, crepe print, mull, kota, tangail print.
PHOTOGRAPHS
Till April 4 at Gaganendra Pradarshashala; 3 pm - 8 pm: West Bengal Heritage Commission is organising an exhibition of photographs taken by Gautam De on Chandraketugarh, an eminent site of archaeological importance protected by Archaeological Survey of India.
Till April 19 (except Mondays) at Bose Pacia, 18 Park Street; 11 am - 7 pm: India Shining, India Crying - A tale of contemporary India: An exhibition of photographs by Johann Rousselot.
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